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Lia’s story

As she experienced homelessness and isolation, Lia found a new beginning and a new sense of belonging through Yonge Street Mission.
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Evan’s story

After becoming homeless at 19, Evan found a caring community at Yonge Street Mission.
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Backpack Day at YSM

Thanks to donations from local churches and businesses, Yonge Street Mission gave away more than 600 new backpacks filled with school supplies last week.
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How YSM disrupts the cycle of poverty: Steve’s story

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WWE superstars Carmelo Hayes and Chelsea Green with YSM's Eleanor Edwards

WWE names YSM a Community Champion

While World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) was in Toronto for their July 2024 Money in the Bank event, they named YSM as one of their three Toronto Community Champions.
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Easter joy at YSM

Over the holiday weekend, we hosted a delicious hot meal for 200 community members to enjoy.
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#HackPoverty celebration

Leaders from key sectors across Toronto are coming together with lived experience leaders to identify areas for actionable change to break cycles of poverty.
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Hand-drawn image of what art therapy participants hope to offer to and receive from the trauma-informed art therapy group at YSM

Trauma-informed art therapy group heals through connection

YSM's free, accessible art therapy group can safely explore their feelings while also experiencing connection, compassion, acceptance, and belonging.
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Image of Richard and Lorelai Jenkins cutting the ribbon to open YSM's new health centre for vulnerable youth.

Our new Evergreen Health Centre has opened!

Housed in YSM’s Evergreen Centre on Spadina Avenue, YSM's new Richard and Lorelei Jenkins & Family Health and Dental Centre increased the size of our health centre, which provides physicals, eye exams, chiropractic care, dental surgery, physiotherapy, and more.
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YSM President & CEO Angie Peters speaks to young entrepreneurs at YSM's Fish Tank

Cornerstone students enter the YSM Fish Tank

What gets kids thinking as entrepreneurs and diving enthusiastically into learning about money management? A challenge, in January, to compete in YSM’s first-ever Fish Tank, a business case competition. Over three days, sixty students between the ages of 8 and 13 participated in Junior Achievement’s “More than Money” program led

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Recent graduates of YSM's Computer Literacy Centre

YSM’s Computer Literacy Centre: A life-giving place

Yathu’s story Eighteen years ago, when Yathu was in seventh grade, his mom told him she’d signed him up for a computer club at YSM twice a week after school. Yathu’s parents had come to Canada as part of a wave of immigrants fleeing civil war in Sri Lanka in

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Pathways to Meaningful Income: Systems Navigation

Supported by Future Skills Centre, Pathways to Meaningful Income: Systems Navigation explores how YSM’s Care Management Program guides community members to achieve forward movement in their lives and the different forms of support they can receive toward meaningful income. Learn more here.

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YSM Impact Stories Meet a valuable new member of YSM’s staff family!

Meet CATM’s Assistant Pastor Jonathan Tysick

Despite being early in his career, YSM’s newest member of our Church at the Mission (CATM) Pastoral Care team, Jonathan Tysick has accumulated a wealth of lived experience beyond that of many who may be twice his age. Married with two young children, Jonathan has earned a Master of Theological

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YSM Impact Stories Strengthening Family Bonds with Children’s Aid Society of Toronto

Strengthening Family Bonds

Since January, YSM’s Cornerstone Family Services has been piloting an innovative program with the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto (CAST) to provide an onsite reunion space where our staff supervises visits between Children’s Aid Society involved children and their parents. This new program is part of YSM’s Cornerstone Partnership, a

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YSM Impact Stories Corporate Partnerships with Kinectrics

The Power of Philanthropy

Partnerships play a vital role in Yonge Street Mission’s ability to serve the community. One of our trusted collaborations, which dates back to 2019, is with electric power company Kinectrics. It started when our President & CEO Angie Peters was invited by Kinectrics’ CEO David Harris to speak about YSM’s

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